By blocking I mean the straight path across the driveway. you could easily walk on the lower third of the drive around the rear of the cars. One of the neighbors was upset about having to walk around the car ends that she started calling the cops on people parking in their own driveways. The cops hands were tied and they issued tickets.

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Sounds like your sister and the other ticket getting neighbours were the SS here.

The driveways were to short to park trucks or SUVs in without going a couple inches into the "sidewalk" which is part of their driveway. Near as anyone could figure out.

1. Houses/Driveways were built 70's2. Sidewalks put in late 70's3. Law about not blocking the sidewalk rightway across your drive was passed late 1990's early 2000's. In all honestly their council member should have been on the ball and got exemptions for situations like this built into the law.

This woman wasn't calling about people parking across the rightway - she was calling about people's bumpers hanging into the space an inch or two.

The footpath/sidewalk is not your driveway, it is the footpath. It is not for you to park on. Parking on it means someone in a wheelchair or mobility scooter may need to go cross country to continue on their way which is not always possible. Plus parking there is illegal.

Owning an SUV or truck or any length of car is a choice that should be made with availability of parking in mind.

Hence your sister and neighbours were SS's and even worse so for taking out their dislike of the consequences of their actions on the poor correct neighbour woman.

When I bought my house, my driveway ran from my garage door to the edge of the street. The garage was built in 1932, wasn't really big enough for anything bigger than a model T Ford. The driveway was just big enough to fit a SUV, or pick up truck. The fact that putting a sidewalk in on our side of the street would have meant that people would not be able to park on their own property was enough to stop the city from building that sidewalk.

And that's as it should be. That's good government in action. But once the footpath and law are there, the proper course is to get the law changed or footpath moved, not ignore it.

As someone who needs to walk everywhere, including around cars hanging over to the sidewalk, I'm on the side of the woman who called the police a SS. Yes, it means having to go around, but when I was trained in Orientation and Mobility for using my cane, it was standard to train that you go around and you feel out the sidewalk / ground as best you could.

Now, is it annoying? Yep. But as stated in other threads on EHell, just because something is annoying doesn't mean it's rude. Or right to call in the police when they have better things to do than issue tickets for people exercising their right to use their property as best they could.

This is interesting to me because of the disagreement I had earlier about not using a space that was not allocated to you even if it was inconvenient for you. Funny how different situations bring different opinions.

I am seconding the request that the parking in a driveway vs the sidewalk discussion be stopped.

The SS taxis clamoring to get in line at the exit for a theme park. The line was so long, the taxis had to go around the block and come back again, as there was no where for the new ones to go, with at least thirty already lined up for passengers. I'm glad I don't go there often.

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I nominate for SS the people who ripped out the concrete pillars of a park dock, threw them onto the grass and dumped the rest of the dock into the water. Apparently there were tire tracks, which probably explains how they managed all that damage so easily. So pointless and spiteful

I nominate for SS the people who ripped out the concrete pillars of a park dock, threw them onto the grass and dumped the rest of the dock into the water. Apparently there were tire tracks, which probably explains how they managed all that damage so easily. So pointless and spiteful

The local yahoos who ride their off-road motorbikes through the footpaths and around our streets. These bikes are illegal to ride anywhere but in designated off-road areas and private rural properties. They sound like the proverbial bee in a biscuit tin, and at 2am when they scream up and down the roads.

We contacted the local shire and they put a new pole back in the footpath walkway, which has cut them down, but there's still a few trying to run it.

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I nominate for SS the people who ripped out the concrete pillars of a park dock, threw them onto the grass and dumped the rest of the dock into the water. Apparently there were tire tracks, which probably explains how they managed all that damage so easily. So pointless and spiteful

My friend had people knock on her door last night at 10 pm. Apparently there were two horses on the road. They went out, and they were theirs. Looked like a driver had gone off the road and drove through the ditch, and either pulled out or bent a bunch of their T-posts that their electric fence run on. Took out about 60 feet of fenceline.

They did some damage to their car and left some parts behind, and the parts had numbers, so they're hoping the cops can find the vehicle. Hope they slap that person with a huge fine!

I nominate the people who dumped broken fridges, electronics, and mattresses onto our neighbors property and set them on fire.

Neighbor has let our community use his property (around 30 acres) as a de facto park for over 5 years. Most of the neighborhood is very good about keeping the property clean and someone even put in a couple of benches and a nice table near the stream about a 1/4 of a mile in. We have walked/played with our dogs here for years. Everyone picks up after their dogs and when we go out near the stream you can see where people have had cleared out brush and dead limbs to create areas to picnic and sit and relax. Dumpers have done so much damage (fire trucks had to be called in last year) that he gave us notice that none of us can use the property anymore and he has put up posts, chains, and "no trespassing" signs to keep people out.

I understand completely, but I am spitting mad at the a**holes who are too lazy/cheap to put in a call to sanitation for pickup. Yes, it costs about $50, but that is for coming out. You could fill the whole truck up with crap and it would still only cost $50. Now the entire community is without a green space unless you drive about 10 miles into the city.

That's so sad. And you know that the dumpers will be spitting mad that he's taken away their "right" to dispose of garbage for free. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them try to trespass anyway.

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That's so sad. And you know that the dumpers will be spitting mad that he's taken away their "right" to dispose of garbage for free. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them try to trespass anyway.

Good luck to them for that. He has a backhoe and is planning to dig moats at the only two real entrances to the property. You could still get there walking but can't bring in a truck or car to dump stuff. The rest of the property is bordered by houses with nosy neighbors (that's how the fire truck was called) or so wooded that you can's get anything between the trees and brush and would have to dump right by a well traveled highway.

That's so sad. And you know that the dumpers will be spitting mad that he's taken away their "right" to dispose of garbage for free. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if some of them try to trespass anyway.

Good luck to them for that. He has a backhoe and is planning to dig moats at the only two real entrances to the property. You could still get there walking but can't bring in a truck or car to dump stuff. The rest of the property is bordered by houses with nosy neighbors (that's how the fire truck was called) or so wooded that you can's get anything between the trees and brush and would have to dump right by a well traveled highway.

Will he open it back up then? Maybe if you got the whole neighborhood to have a volunteer day cleaning and clearing the place?

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He and his wife are keeping it so that it won't be developed. He is the one who used to own the land our community was built on and he made a killing when he sold it. About 20 years ago he owned the land that now makes up quite a bit of our suburb and he is quite well of because of very timely sales of bits of land.

The use of his wooded acreage was just a generous gesture on their part. The last incident that happened on his land because of SS people made his lawyer advise him of liability problems if something involving damage to people should happen. Without too many details, some kids set some mattresses that were dumped on fire and one was hurt. There was a brouhaha about suing for owning an attractive nuisance and things have gone downhill from there.

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